Edith Wharton's Erotica, Bukowski and Sondheim Production, and More

Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:

This spring, the erotic bestselling series Fifty Shades… accounted for every one out of five adult print books sold, and in light of this, the Daily Beast looks at how this may alter publishing.

Eli Horowitz, the former publisher of McSweeney's, has created a new yearlong project, an app that will deliver a "geo-located mobile serialized story." Oddly, Horowitz doesn't own a smartphone. (BuzzFeed)

"This is one irony of the recent rise of Conceptual writing. Another is that a movement which is so committed to eliminating lyrical charisma has invested so heavily in the charisma of the poet as performer." Matvei Yankelevich writes an open letter in response to Marjorie Perloff's Boston Review essay, "Poetry on the Brink: Reinventing the Lyric.” (Los Angeles Review of Books)